Supplier for bulk quantities of 3' x 8' decals?

[PatWhatley]

Have a customer who wants 500 3'x8' decals, two colors on white. We can print them on our latex printers or screen print them but we'd rather sub them out. Anyone know a good wholesaler for something like that?

 

[petepaz]

Merritt Big Color

We handle it all. We are a full service provider of bold & innovative graphic solution from concept to realization.

www.merrittbigcolor.com

 

[rjssigns]

Stouse. I've used them multiple times with good results. YMMV

 

[2B]

FireSprint.com

 

[Sharper Printing]

Pat,

We are a large format trade only printer and can take care of this for you. Give us a call. 844-474-2773

 

[FireSprint.com]

We'd love to bid this!

 

[wolfephoto]

Feel free to contact us directly at support@firesprint.com for a quote.

www.firesprint.com

 

[binki]

Everyone mentioned or mentioning themself above is a good choice. You can't go wrong with any of them.

 

[Pat Whatley]

Everyone mentioned or mentioning themself above is a good choice. You can't go wrong with any of them.

One of those suppliers cost me a $40,000 a year contract by screwing a project up SO badly the client wouldn't even let me reprint them and give them to them for free. They just cancelled the contract and moved on to the next supplier on their list. We had just purchased my sign shop, bought our big house, had twin boys born and the economy tanked. Losing that contract due to an inept supplier SEVERELY impacted the next four years of my life.

 

[Michael-Nola]

Have a customer who wants 500 3'x8' decals, two colors on white. We can print them on our latex printers or screen print them but we'd rather sub them out. Anyone know a good wholesaler for something like that?

Why sub out? If you can screen print you're already beating prices within your most common market. If you don't have screens that size, who cares?? How much of your competition does anyway? You're only talking 14 rolls of material, you could run that in 2 days digitally if you wanted. Ah granted, if you're running latex digital, I can see why you don't consider long digital runs. There's no way to run that kind of volume on those machines. In that case, you could outsource to anyone local with screens that old-school size, or digital machines that are anything but latex.

 

[2B]

One of those suppliers cost me a $40,000 a year contract by screwing a project up SO badly the client wouldn't even let me reprint them and give them to them for free. They just cancelled the contract and moved on to the next supplier on their list. We had just purchased my sign shop, bought our big house, had twin boys born and the economy tanked. Losing that contract due to an inept supplier SEVERELY impacted the next four years of my life.

This sounds like a horrible situation and glad you, painfully, worked through it

Please share who it was, PM if that is better

 

[binki]

One of those suppliers cost me a $40,000 a year contract by screwing a project up SO badly the client wouldn't even let me reprint them and give them to them for free. They just cancelled the contract and moved on to the next supplier on their list. We had just purchased my sign shop, bought our big house, had twin boys born and the economy tanked. Losing that contract due to an inept supplier SEVERELY impacted the next four years of my life.

Understood. We just had the same thing happen with a supplier who had been very good although their quality started going down over the last few years. We finally had to switch vendors after a major screwup on a job.

 

[PatWhatley]

Why sub out? If you can screen print you're already beating prices within your most common market.

Because screenprinting decal will take much longer than screenprinting coro signs. If we can sub them out to someone we can keep our large presses running coro and make a markup on the decals. We can run them on our digital printers but honestly I don't want to deal with printing 20 rolls of material (there are more decals with this now), laminating 20 rolls of material, cutting down 20 rolls of material, and packing 20 rolls of material. Wholesalers are your friend.